If you love Christchurch, enrol to vote so you can have a say on the people who will make decisions that shape your community.
If you are enrolled on the electoral roll you are eligible to vote in central government and council elections. You can enrol, check or update your details at any time at vote.nz(external link).
Enrolment information is also available in:
The Electoral Commission(external link) has a lot of useful, accessible resources in different formats.
If you are registered to vote in parliamentary elections, you will be automatically enrolled on the local body residential electoral roll as a residential elector at the address where you live.
Find out which ward you are in.
You will receive a voting document so that you can vote by post.
Any changes to the residential roll, such as your address, should be made by:
A Council district includes a city, district and regional council area, and a community board area.
If you are on the electoral roll in one area and pay rates on a property in another area, you may be eligible for enrolment on the non-resident ratepayer roll. This qualifies you to vote more than once in the local elections.
You may be eligible as a non-resident ratepayer elector in Christchurch City Council if both of these apply:
Your eligibility to enrol or be nominated may also depend on your individual circumstances as determined by criteria in the Local Electoral Act 2001 and its regulations.
If a firm, company, trust, corporation, society partners, joint tenants and tenants in common collectively pay rates on a property in a council district, one of the group may be nominated to be the ratepayer elector.
The person nominating and the nominated person must be registered as a residential elector outside the council district where the property is located.
You can only enrol, or be nominated to enrol as a ratepayer elector, once in a council district, no matter how many properties you own in that council district. A council district includes a city, district and regional council area, and a community board area.
If you have questions about whether you may be eligible to enrol or to nominate someone as a ratepayer elector, please contact the Electoral Officer on 03 941 8581 or at elections@ccc.govt.nz.
Download the 2022 ratepayer enrolment form [PDF, 171 KB].
You can check your eligibility and complete an online enrolment form at Electionz.com(external link).
